October 7 should have been an open-and-shut case of moral condemnation. During peace and holiday, invading Hamas, gunmen murdered, tortured, mass raped, decapitated, and mutilated some 1,200 Israelis. The vast majority were unarmed women, children, infants, and the elderly.

A descent into barbarism is easy and fast; you only need to let yourself go.  The animal part of all of us is just below the surface and constantly has to be controlled, or it will bubble to the top, and we will sink into savagery.

Antisemitism is on the rise— and with recent events happening in Israel, Hamas’s slaughter on the Jewish land has expedited its exposure.

By: Becket Adams – nationalreview.com – November 19, 2023 The difference between the many recent pro-Palestinian rallies and Tuesday’s March for Israel in D.C. is night and day. On Tuesday, one of the largest gatherings of American Jewry in U.S. history took place in Washington, D.C., where an estimated 290,000 people descended on the National Mall to stand in solidarity with...

At one point in the evening, Prof. Ajami noted that when Saddam Hussein used nerve gas on his own people, the UN said nothing. But when Israel uses tear gas, it draws international rebuke.

The examples here — of which there will sadly and surely be more — are some of the more shocking instances of antisemitic violence since October 7.

AP responded: “AP had no advance knowledge of the October 7 attack,” said spokesperson Nicole Meyer.

Hatred of Israel cannot be distinguished from hatred of the Jewish people. Incontestably now, anti-Zionism is antisemitism.

By: Dennis Prager New York Times headline: “On Israel, Progressive Jews Feel Abandoned by Their Left-Wing Allies.” …

By: Caroline Downey – nationalreview.com – November 6, 2023 Prominent Democrats have turned on “Squad” member Representative Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.) over her hostility to Israel and her embrace of genocidal language. The radical progressive first faced condemnation from Democrats in Congress and her home state of Michigan after she posted a video accusing the Biden administration of being complicit...